The camp and the dead: What's new in 1.6
· By Satyajit Pradhan, founder of Matterward Labs
The road is no longer the whole war. Narrow Front 1.6 adds an army camp to grow, land to reclaim from the dead, and new reasons to take your troops into battle.
Version 1.6.2 is available on both stores. The Google Play listing updated on November 4, and the App Store release followed on November 5, 2026. Here is what the current game includes.
Build a camp, then make room for it
Your Command Post grows through ten levels, from a small beginning to a fortified headquarters. Builders put up barracks, producers, walls, towers and other defenses. Train troops, collect resources and decide what the army needs next.
The ground beyond the wire is held by the dead. Reclaim it in short assaults with your own troops: clear the nests, finish the work and move the perimeter out. At night, the dead come for the camp itself. Read the raid forecast and prepare the defenses before they arrive.
Hold until dawn
In Dead of Night, your headquarters has to survive undead waves until morning. Walkers, runners, crawlers and fallen soldiers fill the approaches, with four bosses bringing larger threats.
Choose a boon between waves, use the Churchill Crocodile's flamethrower, fight for supply drops and bring survivors home. Reaching for a reward means sending troops away from a line that still needs defending. Blood can be turned off in Settings.
Fight the wider war
The Front joins battles into a war across a campaign map. Take sectors, scout with recon, launch operations and answer counterattacks and outbreaks. It plays offline against the computer, separately from the ten story missions in Campaign.
The World puts your camp on a shared online map with room for up to 100 commanders. Send armies to strongpoints, supply drops, crash sites and outbreaks, fight for them and bring the loot home. The journey is part of the commitment: the army you send out is the army you have to bring back.
Explore The Front or read about The World.
New orders to return to
Seasons change every two weeks, with daily orders, divisions and leagues. Check the in-game season screen for the current conditions and rewards.
At home, daily camp orders fill a separate stamp card. Seven completed days earn a Field Crate. The game also offers welcome gems for signing in and gems through daily orders.
Read about seasons and camp orders.
Your army and your friends
Field medics now heal friendly infantry. Fighters, dive bombers, anti-aircraft guns and rocket vehicles join the infantry and 24 tanks in the player-usable roster. Night Flare is issued for encounters that use it; the enemy undead are not collectible army cards.
Play a Friend is available on supported Android, iPhone and iPad builds. Connect two devices to the same local Wi-Fi network, open a room and play one, three or five rounds. No internet connection is needed for the local battle.
Campaign, Skirmish, Dead of Night and The Front also work offline. The World, seasons, sign-in, cloud sync, purchases and rewarded ads need an internet connection. Android and iOS progress saves remain separate.
Free to download, with optional purchases
Narrow Front is free on Google Play and the App Store. Optional purchases include premium crates, resource packs, a starter pack, gems and cosmetics such as flags, camouflage and camp decorations. Crate odds are shown before purchase; current offers and regional prices appear in the game.
Rewarded videos remain optional. No ad interrupts a battle.
Choose a game mode, download on Google Play or get Narrow Front on the App Store.